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Video game console emulator

Gens/GS

System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Mega-CD, 32X
OS: Windows, Linux
Developer: Stéphane Dallongeville (Gens); David "GerbilSoft" Korth
Programmed in: Assembly, C++
Last release date: 2009-11-22^[1] (15 years ago)
Last version: r7

Gens/GS is a Sega Mega Drive emulator derived from Gens and maintained by GerbilSoft. It is based upon the Gens version 2.15.2 Linux source code. Project goals include clean source code, combined features from various forks of Gens, and improved platform portability.

Development of the emulator was continued in Gens/GS II.

Features

Gens/GS has a number of bug fixes and low-level code changes, as well as the following updates:

Accurate colour scaling so that white has the RGB value $FFFFFF. Older emulators usually displayed white as $E0E0E0.
VDP options for disabling layers and locking palettes.
Sonic game memory value viewer ported from sGens.
Renderers ported from Gens Re-Recording and Gens Plus!.

Other versions

Gens/GS II is a partial rewrite of Gens/GS written by GerbilSoft. Gens/GS II improves the basic framework of the emulator, which will allow for the addition of many new features.

A parody version of the emulator, Gens/GS S2HD Edition, was released to mock the high overhead and bad effects of modern-day emulation compilations and poor-quality "HD" remakes.

Downloads

Download Gens/GS
Multiple downloads available

Gens/GS Release 7 (Source Code) (3.36 MB) (info)

Gens/GS Release 7 (Ubuntu 8.04+, i386) (2.24 MB) (info)

Gens/GS Release 7 (Win32, i386; Packaging Update 1) (2.07 MB) (info)

Gens/GS Release 7 (Slackware 13.0, i486) (2.16 MB) (info)

Gens/GS Release 7 (Ubuntu 18.04) (2.35 MB) (info)

Ubuntu 18.04 Install Instructions

These packages are 32 bit, but modern Ubuntu is 64-bit. You can setup i386 architecture and install pretty easily, however:

   $ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
   $ sudo apt-get update
   $ sudo apt-get install <this package>.deb

Old versions

Versions r7 pre1, r7 pre2, r7 pre3, r7 pre4, r7 pre5 (Windows, Linux and source code). ^(info) (16.93 MB)
- Version m6 is missing.

External links

Git Repository

Forum threads

References

↑ http://www.dusers.drexel.edu/gitweb/gitweb.cgi/~korth/gens.git/commit/909e81d9a85fa378faba42d3a6bd121fdfe7c5e3

[http:.2F.2Fwww.dusers.drexel.edu.2Fgitweb.2Fgitweb.cgi.2F.7Ekorth.2Fgens.git.2Fcommit.2F909e81d9a85fa378faba42d3a6bd121fdfe7c5e3-1] ttp://www.dusers.drexel.edu/gitweb/gitweb.cgi/~korth/gens.git/commit/909e81d9a85fa378faba42d3a6bd121fdfe7c5e3

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-'''Gens/GS''' is a version of Gens for Linux maintained by [[GerbilSoft]]. The main goal of Gens/GS is to clean up the source code and combine features from various forks of Gens. Additionally, a future version of Gens/GS will combine the Windows code into the same codebase, so one codebase can be used to compile on both operating systems.
+| bobscreen=GensGS.png
+| system=[[Sega Mega Drive]], [[Mega-CD]], [[32X]]
+| os=Windows, Linux
+| developer=Stéphane Dallongeville (Gens); David "GerbilSoft" Korth
+| language=Assembly, C++
+| date=2009-11-22{{ref|http://www.dusers.drexel.edu/gitweb/gitweb.cgi/~korth/gens.git/commit/909e81d9a85fa378faba42d3a6bd121fdfe7c5e3}}
+| version=r7
+}}
+'''Gens/GS''' is a [[Sega Mega Drive]] emulator derived from [[Gens]] and maintained by [[GerbilSoft]]. It is based upon the Gens version 2.15.2 Linux source code. Project goals include clean source code, combined features from various forks of Gens, and improved platform portability.
-==Releases==
+Development of the emulator was continued in [[Gens/GS II]].
-===Milestone 1===
+==Features==
+Gens/GS has a number of bug fixes and low-level code changes, as well as the following updates:
+* Accurate colour scaling so that white has the RGB value $FFFFFF. Older emulators usually displayed white as $E0E0E0.
+* VDP options for disabling layers and locking palettes.
+* ''Sonic'' game memory value viewer ported from [[sGens]].
+* Renderers ported from [[Gens Re-Recording]] and [[Gens Plus!]].
-Milestone 1 introduces the following new features:
+==Other versions==
+[[Gens/GS II]] is a partial rewrite of Gens/GS written by GerbilSoft. Gens/GS II improves the basic framework of the emulator, which will allow for the addition of many new features.
-* Massive code cleanup throughout the entire Gens codebase. Many functions with duplicated code have been consolidated so that the duplicated code is now shared between the functions. Also, several large files have been split into smaller files. For instance, gens.c has been split into gens.c, g_md.c, g_mcd.c, g_32x.c, and g_palette.c.
+A parody version of the emulator, [[Gens/GS S2HD Edition]], was released to mock the high overhead and bad effects of modern-day emulation compilations and poor-quality "HD" remakes.
-* Introduction of OS-independent functions, which will allow for the integration of the Win32 version of Gens later on, so that one codebase can be used to build a Gens executable for either operating system.
+==Downloads==
+{{Multidownload
+| file1=Gens-gs-r7.tar.gz
+| filename1=Gens/GS Release 7 (Source Code)
+| file2=Gens_2.16.7_i386.deb
+| filename2=Gens/GS Release 7 (Ubuntu 8.04+, i386)
+| file3=Gens-gs-r7-win32-pkg1.7z
+| filename3=Gens/GS Release 7 (Win32, i386; Packaging Update 1)
+| file4=Gens-gs-r7-i486-4_SBo.tgz
+| filename4=Gens/GS Release 7 (Slackware 13.0, i486)
+| file5=Gens_2.16.8-r7orig_amd64.deb
+| filename5=Gens/GS Release 7 (Ubuntu 18.04)
+}}
-* Gens v7 savestate format, ported from Gens Rerecording. This adds, among other things, proper Sega CD savestate support.
+===Ubuntu 18.04 Install Instructions===
+These packages are 32 bit, but modern Ubuntu is 64-bit.  You can setup i386 architecture and install pretty easily, however:
-* Fixed the built-in debugger, which was broken due to changes in the way text was written to the emulated screen.
+    $ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
+    $ sudo apt-get update
+    $ sudo apt-get install <this package>.deb
-* Added enhanced Sega CD GFX debugging from Gens Rerecording.
+===Old versions===
+* {{file|GensGS old versions.7z|Versions r7 pre1, r7 pre2, r7 pre3, r7 pre4, r7 pre5 (Windows, Linux and source code).}}
+** Version m6 is missing.
-* VDP/GFX debugging now outlines the selected palette.
+==External links==
+===Git Repository===
+* [http://www.dusers.drexel.edu/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=~korth/gens.git;a=summary Gens/GS Git Repository]
+* [http://www.dusers.drexel.edu/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=~korth/gens-gs-ii.git;a=summary Gens/GS II Git Repository]
-* Initial attempt to consoldidate global variables into structs. This will make it easier to figure out where everything is located.
+===Forum threads===
+* [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1225491 Ubuntu Forums thread (r7_pre2)]
+* {{LinkRetro|topic=16887|title=Sonic Retro thread (r7_pre2)}}
-* Complete rewrite of the GTK+ UI. Among other things, the new UI has much improved synchronization, so when a menu item is checked, it actually means that item is enabled.
+* [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959074 Ubuntu Forums thread (m5-m6)]
+* [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=948708 Ubuntu Forums thread (m4.2)]
+* {{LinkRetro|topic=11813|title=Sonic Retro thread (m6 and earlier)}}
-* Rewrite of the byteswapping functions so that they describe what is being swapped (e.g. be16_to_cpu_array()).
+==References==
+<references/>
-* Fixed tons of compiler warnings.
-{{Download|version=2.15.2/GS-m1|file=Gens-2.15.2-gs-m1.tar.gz|filesize=633 KB}}
-[[Category:Mega Drive Emulators]]